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Amoeblog posts marked with pablo picasso.(Où l'on considère les chanteurs français.)<div style="text-align: center;">
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When you work at <strong>Amoeba Music</strong> there&rsquo;s certain questions you answer over and over again:</div>
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&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the restroom?&rdquo;</p>
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&ldquo;Why&rsquo;s <em>this one</em> this price and <em>this one</em> this price?&rdquo;</p>
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&ldquo;Where can I find <strong>Edith Piaf</strong>?&rdquo;</p>
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That last question is occasionally (to my endless amusement) pronounced as, &ldquo;Where can I find Edith <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf"><em>Pilaf</em></a>?&rdquo; to which I always want (but never) answer:</p>
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&ldquo;We file her in-between <strong>Condoleezza Rice</strong> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_d_tll47GM"><strong>Tim Curry</strong></a>. They all go great together.&rdquo;</p>
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My internalized snarkiness aside, I&rsquo;m all for Edith Piaf. Who could hate <em>La Môme Piaf</em> (her French nickname, literally translated as <em>&ldquo;That short woman in the black dress with the amazing voice but tragic make-up which someone should seriously having a talking-to-her about&rdquo;</em>)?</p>
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But I think too many people stop with Piaf and don&rsquo;t investigate the <strong><em>chanson française</em></strong> of her peers, which is a shame because there&rsquo;s so much to love. Below I offer some performers I think are <em>à l&#39;opposé de terrible</em>.</p>
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Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:32:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/03/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-o-l-on-consid-re-les-chanteurs-fran-ais-.htmlPicasso’s Toy Guitar <div><img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/picgui.jpg" alt="Picasso's Toy Guitar" style="border: 8px solid white;" /></div>
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Carabinieri </strong>police in <strong>Rome</strong> have tracked down the world&rsquo;s most priceless <strong>toy guitar</strong>. The sculpture created by <strong>Pablo Picasso</strong> for his daughter <strong>Paloma</strong> has been missing the last couple of years. Picasso, several decades back, had given the piece to the Italian artist <strong>Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi</strong>, but two years ago Parisi lent it to a businessman, who convinced Parisi he could make a glass showcase for it. Then Parisi died last January 2009 at the age of 92. The priceless piece was to go on display at the civic museum in Maccagno, a small town on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy where Parisi was born. Nothing ever came of it. Police say the businessman never returned the work; instead he kept it hidden away in a shoe box in his apartment in Pomezia, a town just south of Rome. The Little Guitar was tracked down with aid from Parisi&rsquo;s widow, who told police that the piece was most likely still in the hands of the businessman. The unnamed businessman was charged with fraud and is now out on bail. An expert has authenticated the work, which bears the inscription &ldquo;Paloma.&rdquo; The Little Guitar will now, as once planned, go on display at the museum in Maccagno.</div>
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Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:56:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/01/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/picasso-s-toy-guitar-.htmlGuillaume Apollinaire<p><img align="left" alt="" style="border: 12px solid white;" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/apollinaire3px.bmp" /></p>
<p>This weekend marks the anniversary of the death of a personal hero of mine, poet Guillaume Apollinaris de Kostrowitzky, better known as <strong>Apollinaire</strong>, who died during the <strong>Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918</strong>. His greatest contribution to the 20th century, other than coining the term &lsquo;<strong>surrealism</strong>&rsquo; and helping to publicize and define the <strong>cubist</strong> movement, was probably his poetry, influencing many of the avant-garde, <strong>dada</strong> and surrealist writers in post-Great War France, such as Andr&eacute; Breton and Tristan Tzara.</p>
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Some of the best anecdotes about Apollinaire concern his occasionally dubious character. He was known for reviewing non-existent books and writing erotic / pornographic fantasies under pseudonyms. Re-inventing facts was a penchant of his, often ending in uncomfortable predicaments. In 1911, for example, he was detained for six days on suspicion of stealing the<strong> Mona Lisa</strong>. &nbsp;When things looked a bit bleak, he pointed the finger at his trusted friend <strong>Pablo Picasso</strong>, implicating him in one of the biggest crimes of the era. Both were eventually exonerated, but the Mona Lisa wasn&rsquo;t recovered until 1913, and after some eight forgeries had been sold! Nevertheless, the more adventurous Parisians were counted in Apollinaire&rsquo;s circle of friends and colleagues. They were the who&rsquo;s who of&nbsp; <strong>Paris</strong>, artists like Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Marie Laurencin (his long time lover), Marc Chagall and Marcel Duchamp, writers Gertrude Stein, Alfred Jarry, Max Jacob, and composer Erik Satie.</p>
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<p>After the start of the <strong>First World War</strong>, Apollinaire joined the French military, requesting front-line infantry duty. On March 17, 1916, while entrenched on the front near Champagne close to the Belgian frontier, he suffered a shell wound to the temple. The neurological consequences of such an injury are uncertain. But what is certain, according to people who knew him before and after, his personality and behavior altered dramatically. He became irritable, anxious and depressed, ending significant relationships, including breaking the engagement to his fianc&eacute;. Perhaps in part because of his war wounds, exposure to mustard gas, or any of the multiple surgeries he underwent, Apollinaire would become one of an estimated 100 million people worldwide who died from the great influenza pandemic, passing on November 9th in his apartment in Paris at 202 Boulevard Saint-Germain. Every couple of years or so I travel to <strong>Paris</strong> and I always make a point to stop by his gravesite in <strong>P&egrave;re Lachaise</strong>, open a bottle of wine, snack on some bread and cheese, relax and give people directions to Chopin&rsquo;s and Jim Morrison&rsquo;s graves.</p>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/11/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/guillaume-apollinaire.html
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